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Young Professionals Program
Jamestown is pleased to announce its Young Professionals Program, a seasonal lecture series that provides young professionals interested in international security with the opportunity to engage with current and former top U.S. policy makers, diplomats and Jamestown analysts. Each series will be dedicated to a... MORE
PRESS RELEASE: Jamestown Welcomes New Board Members, Michael Carpenter, Scott Robins and Michael Vickers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888 The Jamestown Foundation is proud to announce the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Carpenter, Virtual Procurement Services CEO Scott Robins, as well as... MORE
PRESS RELEASE: In Memoriam: Dr. Marshall Goldman, 1930–2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888 With deep sadness, The Jamestown Foundation marks the passing of Dr. Marshall I. Goldman, a well-known economist, author, university professor and Kremlinologist. Dr. Goldman faithfully served on Jamestown’s Board of Directors for over a decade,... MORE
PRESS RELEASE: Russia Announces Closure of Kerch Strait, Cutting Southeastern Ukraine off From Access to Black Sea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888 In a statement today, August 9, Jamestown Foundation President Glen E. Howard called on US government officials and members of Congress to direct their attention to the recent decision by Russian authorities to unilaterally close the international... MORE
In Memoriam: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1928–2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matthew Czekaj pubs@jamestown.org 202.483.8888 With deep sadness, The Jamestown Foundation marks the passing of Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a world-renowned international affairs expert and the National Security Advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Brzezinski was a member of Jamestown’s... MORE
Shattering the al-Qaeda-Chechen Myth
With last week’s revelation that the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Jokhar Tsarnaev, were in fact ethnic Chechens, US journalists, analysts, law enforcement and the authorities have been scrambling to find an explanation for the tragic event, which left three people dead and nearly... MORE
A Threat to the Khyber Pass: An Extended Portrait of Mangal Bagh Afridi
Coming from obscurity, Mangal Bagh Afridi rose to power and notoriety by controlling Lashkar-e-Islam (LI- the Army of Islam), the biggest and most influential militant group in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency. Khyber Agency is the most strategically important of the seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in... MORE
Jihad in Bangladesh: Profiling Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami’s Maulana Shaykh Farid
Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) forces, the country’s elite anti-terror police, achieved a much awaited breakthrough barely within a week’s time in late April this year, when they apprehended three of the most wanted terror masterminds from different areas of the Dhaka Division. The RAB’s... MORE
Still at Large Ten Years After 9/11: Said Bahaji, Mohammed Atta’s Right Hand Man
Background On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Said Bahaji, one of two known members of the Hamburg cell, remains at large. [1] Said Bahaji was born in Lower Saxony, Germany to a Moroccan father and a German mother in... MORE
EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT IN MOSCOW.
Nearly a week of potentially historic East-West summitry came to an end on May 29 when President Vladimir Putin hosted a Kremlin meeting with a European Union delegation led by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose country currently holds the EU rotating presidency, and... MORE